Best cake recipe for a 20cm square tin please

[CobOnTheCorn]

I need to make a big fat cake at the weekend but previously the cake has been a bit hard/dry which I thought was because the cake takes so long to bake.

I think I just need a new recipe. Pleeeeeeas.

I don't think you can go wrong with a madeira. If you're planning to fill it, have you tried baking in two layers?

Thanks icing. I must have a Madeira cake recipe. Two layers is a good idea but I only have one tin of that size so I'd have to bake them separately.

COTC, as Madeira keeps so well, you could bake one on one day and the other the next day, but in fact an 8" square cake should cook easily enough as one thicker cake which you could then split (cut in two layers with a knife). A 4 egg mix should give you enough for a 20cm square pan.

Go on BBC recipe website and find the vanilla cake- maybe called a celebration cake? I made a massive one, and because you soak it in vanilla syrup before icing it is very moist and delicious. Worked a charm. Ill see if I can find it and come back...

Ok, so it's BBC good food website, easy vanilla cake recipe. It really is the best large cake I've ever made. Just multiply for bigger cake.

Thanks 4 and peachy.

I found the vanilla cake recipe (it has Greek yoghurt in - yum!).

I'm going to try it tonight.

Yay! Can you send me a bit??!! We need a cake emoticon...

It's in the oven now. Licking the spoon was very lovely indeed. Looking forward to the house being filled with the smell of vanilla [drool].

I might skip the syrup though...

in lieu of cake!

I made Nigella's chocolate Guinness cake yesterday and it is the best cake I've ever made. Unusual method but I'm going to use it again to make an almond cake using milk rather than Guinness.

The syrup keeps it moist longer term- depends how long it lasts! Cheers for biscuit